Can I ask you something, as someone who is more familiar with Buca di Beppo than I am?

That chef sounds pretty awesome, that was nice of her.

Things I would eat without question:

When visiting France, my dad ordered a hamburger and was brought a large French roll with ground beef and fries on top. It was delicious.

Had a friend once who had finally found a type of vegetarian turkey meat he liked and was so delighted that he could enjoy a turkey sandwich. I tried a slice and it tasted like a wet paper towel. "You poor bastard," I thought, "you've forgotten what deli meat tastes like." But he was so happy eating his sandwich, I…

I could see how someone would get confused going to a restaurant and seeing "shrimp" on the menu. I know it's lame but I prefer when it's intentionally misspelled or uses the name of the product rather than what it's pretending to be. There's a delicious vegan soul food restaurant in my city that has "mac &…

I've had to learn the hard way that in some places, poached doesn't mean with a runny yolk. Sadness on my eggs Benedict. Now I always emphasize "poached — SOFT" like a crazy person.

I used to teach ESL to 20-somethings coming over on a tourist Visa, and they would regularly eat out. I had a whole lesson talking about breakfast foods and how to order eggs, plus how to predict all the common questions the server rattles off. They were baffled at first. "Over easy? Hard scrambled? There's more than…

I resisted black pudding for a long time when I lived in Ireland. A few years later I tried it again and it was delicious.

I'm sure you've gotten the talk about how the British style of baked beans is less sweet than American. They're the best, and English breakfasts are the best, and I will even eat the black pudding because it is the best.

I understand their reasons, I'm just saying that seeing someone with a bandage on their face is kinda gross.

About 10 years ago a friend who worked at a Starbucks had to cover her brow piercing with a bandaid. Every. Damn. Day.

I used to teach ESL to adults, and a common chapter theme most books do is different countries' stereotypes. The kind sweet French man in my class was AGHAST that other people thought the French were rude. "Really??" Poor guy, he looked so hurt.

That guy probably has this problem everywhere he goes, but stubbornly insists on still saying "dressing on the side" as a matter of pride that HE knows something the rest of us idiots don't, and clearly WE'RE wrong.

My dad always cooked his steaks rare. I grew up completely unfazed by meat in pink juice, and was very surprised that people would cook it any other way. I always find it weird the things that you think are totally normal growing up.

I was re-watching Buffy and in an early episode she uses the word "gypped." I guess it wasn't on people's radars back then as being something you didn't say.

Used to have a friend who didn't like cheese. We were at a farmer's market and I stopped at one stand to buy some bread, and they had these cheesy pretzels too. Right in front of the vendor, this former friend shrieks, points at the pretzels, and says, "EWWWW! HOW GROSSSSS!"

SNAP.

Yup. I'm not being a hypocrite by budgeting my calories for the burger, and also having a Coke Zero.

red wine + coke = a kalimoxo, which is a legit drink, and tastes like cheap sangria and is DELICIOUS.